Roots
IrishCentral’s repository of everything to do with your Irish roots – from Irish history, your ancestors, your Irish name, to ancient myth, legend and folklore.
O’Dowds to O’Connells - Irish certainly have a way with names
The “Son of Sam” Summer and the Irish cop who caught the NY serial killer
Famous baseball player finds out who Irish parents were
All about visitor’s Irish clan names in Spiddal, Connemara
National Famine Commemoration Day marked by the president today in Co. Cork
Are you of Irish descent? Connect with your ancestors’ place of origin in Ireland today
How Montserrat’s slave rebellion and St. Patrick’s Day are celebrated together
"Tough, lucky and a drinker" - Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson delighted to learn he has Irish roots
Winston Churchill was responsible by inaction for tragic Lusitania sinking
Most read
- 1 Rejected by Ireland and misunderstood by America, one Irish American tells his story
- 2 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 3 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 4 “Who speaks properly?” Belfast toddler puts her parents' accents to the test
- 5 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 6 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 7 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 8 Ireland’s most-visited heritage sites in 2023, from castles to monuments to gardens
- 9 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
History
On This Day: John Barry, the Irish "Father of the American Navy," dies in 1803
Expert Irish genealogy group publishes new guide to Irish Civil Registration
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
On This Day: JFK defended his Catholic faith to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
Genealogy
